Ode to Cha-cha

Charlie turned 5 in August. I put together a little slideshow including blondies morning hair and various facial expressions that we are so lucky to see on a daily basis.

Charlie wanted to go to Cherry Hill for his birthday. We really had a lot of fun, thanks to Excedrin Migraine.

My sister Maddy went with me to brave Cherry Hill with the boys. She is a very fast texter. She texts all the time. She has LOTS of friends that she texts to. She uses her phone mostly to text. Did I mention she can text? I love you Maddy!!!:)

Morgan sat like this for seriously 20 minutes. I think that he was contemplating how much pee was in Pirates Cove.

Charlie wanted a Pirates of the Carribean cake. You gotta love the blue "water" frosting that turns your teeth and lips blue. Hurry call 911 none of the guests are breathing!

Bear Lake

We took the fam up to Bear Lake the first weekend of August. We went up with all of Tres' family to the cabin. Almost everyone was able to make the annual B.L. trip, but Garrett was a little confused to why Ben and Tanelle couldn't make it. Yeah guys, Grenada isn't that far away! Anyways, we had a great time with everyone, we especially enjoyed spending time at the beach once we convinced the kids that the Bear Lake monster isn't real.

Garrett and Charlie had a great time building sand castles and riding the four-wheelers

And Morgan spent most of his time doing this...

Peanut butter IS for everyone!

Liza turned 4 this week (28 in dog years) So in her honor we post this video and salute her for her accomplishment!

E: Tres, our puppy isn't a puppy anymore! She's a toddler!
T: She's not a toddler! She's already had a full hysterectomy!

Some pictures to add from a camera found in a golf bag

Charlie graduated from Forever Young pre-school the end of May. Doug and Jennifer Young were his teachers and he had a great time with them! No, he did not sing with the rest of his class at the program.

Morgan celebrated his 2nd birthday in May.

Garrett played baseball this spring. His team (the Phillies) were really fun to watch, they did really well!

Ladies hide your cameras!

I don't usually lose a lot of things, (okay sometimes the kids) but the night before we left on our trip to L.P. I went to get my camera out of my purse. It wasn't there so I searched all over the house and still couldn't find it. I woke up early the next morning and still couldn't find it. I looked everywhere. Then I thought, I wonder if it fell out somewhere because sometimes Morgan gets in my purse when he's sitting in the shopping cart to get out fruit snacks or matchbox cars to play with. So I called Target early that morning, no camera turned in. I called Ella to see if I left it in the diaper bag with Morgan, nope. For all of you that don't normally lose things and then you do and you search EVERYWHERE somehow you find this soooo annoying. Tres keeps assuring me that we will find it and he will help me when we get home. We get home and I go at it looking again. I turned the house inside out. I should probably mention that there is like 2 years worth of pictures on this camera, most of them I have not put onto my computer. So you can see why I am so upset. I even offered the kids 50 bucks if they found it, called every place I could think of that I've been to. NO. I am so bothered by this that on Friday when Tres gets home from work (and I'm still searching) I yell at him that he hasn't even helped me look for it and yes I'm still upset and storm outside to move a sprinkler. Then he yells at me from the deck to come over there. Theres my camera in his hand. He says oh it was in my golf bag, I took it to the golf tournament to take pictures and he has the gall to ask for 50 bucks for finding it.

Lake Powell 2008

Now that the 4th of July is over, it feels like the summer is half gone. So I thought I'd tell what we have been up to so far. We went to Lake Powell the last week in June with Garrett & Charlie, mom and dad (TM and ML), Emma and her boyfriend Steve, Maddy and her friend Sammy, and the two dogs Molly and Liza. (Morgan stayed with Papa Deane & Grandma)

My parents just bought into a new houseboat (well new to us). So we spent the week finding the in's and out's of it. The boat is a '94 and only has 300 hrs on the engine! Even though the boat has been used very little it lacked a little TLC, so it took a little elbow grease to polish her up and work out a few of the kinks. It's a great houseboat with 4 beds, 2 bathrooms, 75 ft, an icemaker, and A/C to name a few of the perks! We worked and played until as Uncle Eddy would say on Christmas Vacation, "Sh-tters full!" So we went home.

Im tryin to lern how too bloog caus I herd its eezee

So everyone is giving me a bad time because there hasn't been anything new on our blog since Tres set it up in January. Okay Okay. I don't know how to blog. There it's out... I keep talking to different people and tell them my problem and they look at me with surprise and say that it's so easy. I've been on this computer for 3 1/2 hours now and am finally typing my first post. I would just like to thank you all for your encouragement, support, and love. I will remember you forever and when I run into someone who was in my position, I will say with surprise and arrogance, "but it's soooo easy!!!" :)